Spectacle runs workshops, talks, urban tours and screenings in a variety of settings from festivals and community centres to gallery exhibitions. See below for a comprehensive list of upcoming and past events.
Enough Room for Space
Mark Saunders article on the London Olympics
Website: www.enoughroomforspace.org/...
Contrapolis; or, Creativity and Enclosure in the Cities
Venue: The Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI) and Poortgebouw Rotterdam
Organised by Marina Vishmidt
Course: Mark Saunders on the London Olympics
2 days of workshops, discussions, walks, presentations, installations and screenings that articulate approaches and experiences around the contentious nexus of culture and urban regeneration in Rotterdam, Amsterdam, London, Glasgow and Barcelona.
Website: www.enoughroomforspace.org/...
Community Planning Processes and Skills Workshop:
Venue: SOAS
De Montfort University
Joyce Amparabeng presents Spectacle's participatory media and engagement workshops.
Spectacle on London development projects
Venue: Hamburg Kunstverein
Website: www.projektgruppe.org/...
Screening and workshop De toute façon, ce n est qu un tout petit film. 26 mins
Venue: ISA La Cambre Ixelles
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Mark Saunders and Martin Slavin on London Olympics
Venue: Mute Talk @ Soho Theatre 7pm, 9 October, 2007
Soho Theatre info at www.sohotheatre.com/pl1366.html
In Mute magazine’s first discussion evening on the increasingly urgent subject of debt, Martin Slavin of Gamesmonitor [www.gamesmonitor.org.uk] will respond to contributor Mark Saunders' analysis of the negative impact of the London Olympics
Website: www.metamute.org/...
Living in a bubble: Credit, debt and the crisis
Venue: Mute Magazine Vol 2 #6
Living in a bubble: Credit, debt and the crisis
Mark Saunders on the debt and displacement the 2012 Olympic Games is bringing to London.
Website: www.metamute.org/...
Organised by Esperanzah World Music Festival
Venue: Abbaye de florette
, Namur, Belgium
Films shown: Quand les Papiers Arrivent... follow links for full programme.
Website: www.esperanzah.be/...
Interview with Clare Jeffrey by Lucinda Guy
Venue: Soundart Radio
An arts-based student radio station at Dartington College of Arts.
download
Despite TV.mp3
Website: www.dartington.ac.uk/...
First broadcast in the Brussels region
Venue: TELE BRUXELLES
A 15 min. film conceived and produced by a highly mixed group of refugees and citizens. Ideas, projects and desires are confronted with one question: what will you do when you get your papers?
Website: www.cire.irisnet.be/...
Transformation, survival and emancipation in a world city.
17th International Network for Urban Research and Action conference. Regeneration or business as usual? Seven days of urban tours, discussions, screenings. Follow the link for registration and latest details.
Website: www.inura07.org.uk/...
‘Sport Art’. The new olympic event?
Venue: Glasgow Center for Contemporary Art
Kate Rich, Heath Bunting, Kayle Brandon, Mark Saunders, Jim Colquhoun.
Course: Chaired by Rachel Baker, Irational.org - Tools, Techniques and Events 1996-2006
This seminar will examine ‘Sport Art’ techniques and whether it proposes any kind of challenge to the Olympics and the cultural apparatus that is being built to sell it as an opportunity for artists and communities in London’s East End .
Website: www.cca-glasgow.com/...
Organised by Andrea Van Beuren
Venue: Opera House
, Newport, Rhode Island, USA
Films shown: Gold
Website: www.newportfilmfestival.com/...
Stockwell Studios Open Studios Event
Venue: Stockwell Studios, London SW4
A weekend video workshop during the Stockwell Studios Open Studios Event. If you are interested to participate please contact us using the Spectacle contact form to request details.
Website: www.stockwellstudios.org.uk/...
Organised by Cosmopolis
Venue: deBuren, Leopoldstraat 6, 1000 Brussel
, Brussel, Belgium
Films shown: Place Flagey
Pascal Smet, Brussels minister for Mobility and Open spaces, pronounced publicly that this is the kind of community representation & building we should have.
Website: www.vub.ac.be/...
Organised by Nova Cinema
Venue: Nova Cinema
, Brussels, Belgium
Films shown: Quand les Papier Arrivent
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Website: www.cire.irisnet.be/...
On regeneration and other London Olympic myths
Venue: Eurozine
London rejoiced winning the bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games. But who are the real winners? Urban planners, certainly, who have been handed a carte blanche to carry out a programme of urban reconstruction otherwise beyond their wildest hopes and dreams
Website: www.eurozine.com/...
Organised by Tele-Brussels
Venue: Tele-Brussels
, Brussels, Belgium
Films shown: Je vous salis ma rue
Organised by Tele-Brussels
Venue: Tele-Brussels
, Brussels, Belgium
Films shown: Je vous salis ma rue
First broadcast in the Brussels region
Venue: TELE BRUXELLES
A 15 min. film conceived and produced by a highly mixed group of refugees and citizens. Ideas, projects and desires are confronted with one question: what will you do when you get your papers?
Organised by Couleurs papiers/Lente van de papieren
Venue: Théâtre des Martyrs, Place des Martyrs - 1000 Bruxelles
, Brussels, Belgium
Films shown: Quand Les Papiers Arrivent
Website: www.papieren-papiers.be
Does Picking Up A Camera Make a Difference?
A practical workshop on getting the best out of your video camera, how to work as a group and how your videos can make a difference.
Documenting and positively changing your neighbourhood. Strategies for producing your own media, campaigns and historie
Website: www.haringey.org.uk/...
Organised by XL
Venue: Théâtre Marni Ixelles
, Brussels
Films shown: Quand les Papiers Arrivent...
L'Avant garde des peuples
Après midi consacrée à la question des Sans-papiers
Website: www.cire.irisnet.be/...
Organised by ARTE Kurzschluss
Venue: Arte
Films shown: Gold
Der britische Film Gold verbindet choreographierte Bewegungen und dokumentarische Beobachtung.
Das Portrait zweier junger Kunstturnerinnen gewann 2005 den hochdotierten ersten Preis beim renommierten Festival „Dance Screen“.
Website: www.arte.tv/...
Organised by New York International Children's film festival
Venue: Various - see gkids.com
, New York, USA
Films shown: GOLD
Website: gkids.com
Organised by OxdoxMk
Venue: Old Fire Station
, Oxford, England
Films shown: Gold
Website: www.oxdoxmk.com
Walk around Silwood followed by round table discussion
APaNGO
see archive
Organised by BRXLBravo
Venue: 11heures/uur Théâtre Marni (foyer) 25 rue de Vergniestraat XL
, Brussels, Belgium
Films shown: Premier "Un petit film" Video Malibran Video group
bienvenue à la projection de la 1st production collective du/welkom bij de projectie van de 1st collectieveproductie van wijk video de quartier Malibran.
Rencontre avec le/Ontmoeting met de videogroep. Apero gratis (het eerste glas/le premier verre)
Website: www.brxlbravo.be
Shooting workshop on Place Flagey
11.00-18.00 documentation and filming workshop.
Also ad hoc screenings during the day as part of BrxlBravo events.
la suite du workshop Video Malibran
Venue: PTTL 56 rue Coenraets, 1060 Bruxelles
Weekend editing workshops for Ixelles based community video group Video Malibran to produce video for screening at BRXLBRAVO brussels wide arts festival weekend 3 and 4 March.
Stéphane Sadoux on Spectacle's participatory work (French)
Venue: Environnment No 37
Les nouvelles technologies de l’information et de la communication facilitent la participations aux projets d’urbanisme en Angleterre.
Website: www.regione.vda.it/...
2 day edit workshop
Venue: PTTL
Practical and theoretical edit workshop for XL Malibran Video Group. Attended by 15+ people. Working to produce video for screening at Weekend des arts BrxlBravo March 3rd 07.
Quand les papiers arrivent
Venue: PTTL 56 rue Coenraets, 1060 Bruxelles
Spectacle PTTL Cire
Spectacle and PTTL have set up a small studio and together with a group of "sans papier" and ex -"sans papier" we are making a series of short campaiging video clips, hopefully for national broadcast.
Website: www.cire.irisnet.be/...
Wijk aan het woord
Venue: Nova College
Course: Stadsdeel Geuzenveld-Slotermeer
Spectacle with Atlas Media will take you out on the streets to map the immediate living environment and show you how to look at and listen to your neighbourhood in a different way. Participants produced a 3 minute video report screened in the afternoon.
Website: www.geuzenveld.amsterdam.nl/...
Part 2 of the Ixelles Open Workshop
Venue: PTTL
APaNGO
Organised by Parcours Citoyen XL
Venue: To be announced
, Brussels, Belgium
Films shown: Truth Lies in Rostock
Screening and discussion on collective edit processes. All welcome.
Organised by Parcours Citoyen XL PTTL Spectacle
Venue: GC Elsenhof, 12 avenue de la Couronne-Kroonlaan
, Brussels, Belgium
Films shown: The Truth Lies in Rostock (dubbed in French)
Entrance Free
Organised by Frogsrecords
Venue: Secret Location.
, London, UK
Two rooms of noodly breaks, clowncore and decadence with special skanky sets from Frogsrecords family.
Website: www.frogsrecords.co.uk
Organised by Abacus and Disjunkt
Venue: Secret Location
, East London, England
Films shown: Pop 68, by Saunders and Fried, and many more disturbing images by Spectacle and Klamur (Noemi Rodriguez).
Drum'n'bass, Hardcore and Dubstep nite, visualizing anticonformism.
Organised by ID Spyral
Venue: SeOne Club, Weston Street, London Bridge
, London, UK
Films shown: Olympic Stories. Clays Lane, at 5.00 a.m.
Synergy is a magical indoor festival, combining musicians, DJs, VJs, performers, and artists from all corners of creativity, joined by various pro-active NGOs and charities.
Website: www.thesynergyproject.org
Organised by Moving Image Archive Of Contemporary Art
Venue: 34 Nihon Odori
, Nakaku, Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan
Films shown: Gold and Olympic Stories. Clays Lane.
O.V.L.by REC. is an open video library style event in which ten art experts from Japan and abroad choose moving image art works.
Website: www.miaca.org/...
Organised by Centre de Video de Bruxelles
Venue: Botanique- Rotonde, 236 Rue Royale
, Brussells, Belgium
Films shown: Cite Admin (P.T.T.L/Spectacle)
Une selection de films rares et puissants fabriques a l'assaut de la realite par des aprentis cineastes.
Website: www.gsara.be/...
3 days Open Video Workshop for residents of Ixelles /Elsenes
Venue: Spectacle/PTTL/Parcours citoyen XL
Ixelles
Course: Video training and documentation of neighbourhood
Supported by La Region Bruxelles-Capitale, Het Brussels Hoofdestedelijk Gewest Contrat du quartier- Milibran-wijkcontract.
Website: www.sitesvoisins.be/...
Organised by Eurozine and Projektgruppe Hamburg
Venue: Goethe-Institute
, London, England
Films shown: Olympic Stories: Clays Lane
The 19th European Meeting of Cultural Journals
Website: www.eurozine.com/...
Organised by Anarchist Book Fair
Venue: The Resource Centre, 365 Holloway Rd, London, N7
, London, England
Films shown: All that Glitters, Clays Lane, Bosco Jones, Are you in a bad state.The Truth Lies in Rostock, Despite the City
Website: www.anarchistbookfair.co.uk/...
Organised by London Social Forum and Habitat International
Venue: RampART 15-17 Rampart Street, London, E1 2LA
, London, England
Films shown: 'All that Glitters' about the pre-olympic bid.
'Olympic Stories. Clay's Lane'
'Despite the City'
A scurrilous and irreverent investigation of the City and its colonisation of London's docklands. Community based video at it's best.
7.30pm to 11pm Screenings and discussion.
Also from Free Cinema Movement;
The Vanishing Street (Vas, UK,1962)
Refuge England (Vas, UK,1959)
O Dreamland (Anderson, UK,1953)
'London'(1994,Keiller)
Website: libcom.org/...
Organised by Festival wonen habiter & PTTL
Venue: Carmullo: Spiraalbuisstraat - rue du serpentin 21 / 1050 XL
, Brussels, Belgium
Films shown: LKN123 / Rue de laeken, a gentrified area in Brussels / PTTL-Spectacle (12 min)
3 PTTL videos on a screen. 8 p.m.
Entrance at 21 rue du serpentin, 1050 Ixelles
Website: www.sitesvoisins.be/...
Organised by INURA / Habitat International
Venue: The Square Tavern, 26 Tolmers Square,
, London, England
Films shown: Olympic Stories: Clays Lane and Tolmer Square
Website: www.nickwates.co.uk/...
Organised by City Mined Nova
Venue: Kartuizerstraat 43 rue des Chartreux, 1000 Bxxl
, Brussels, Belgium
Films shown: Je vous salis ma rue
"Je vous salis ma rue" est réalisé sous forme d'ateliers ouverts donnés rue de Laeken nr 119 (bna-bbot) par pttl, collectif bruxellois et Spectacle
Website: www.nova-cinema.org/...
Organised by Stockwell Resource Centre
Venue: Stockwell Resource Centre
, London, England
Films shown: Class X, Stockwell Festival 05, Union Grove Mural edit
Video editing workshop
3 days of video editing workshops
Organised by INURA Ruhr
Venue: Autonomes Zentrum Mülheim
, Mülheim, Germany
Films shown: Olympic Stories: Clays Lane and Cite Administrative
16th Annual INURA Conference
Essen, Rhein-Ruhr Region (Germany), June 29th - July 5th, 2006
TOWARDS THE SHAREHOLDER CITY
Website: www.az-muelheim.de/...
Global City Regions – Towards a Shareholder City
Venue: Bochum / Metropolitan Area Rhine-Ruhr
16th INURA Conference
Website: www.inura-rhein-ruhr.de/...
PTTL workshop with Mark Saunders
Venue: PTTL
Open workshop
Organised by Bristol Insurgent Art
Venue: Temporary Art Centre, Cumberland Rd.
, Bristol, England
Films shown: Olympic Stories. Clays Lane and Exodus Extended Mix.
A Creative Interactive Social Space
Website: www.bristolinsurgentart.co.uk
Organised by Cinema Nova open screen
Venue: Cinema Nova
, Brussels, Belgium
Films shown: Je vous salis, ma rue
Organised by PTTL and BNA-BBOT
Venue: Rue Laeken Lakensestraat
, Brussels, Belgium
Films shown: Je vous salis, ma rue
4 day edit workshop on Rue Laeken project
Venue: PTTL
Organised by Commonwealth Film Festival
Venue: Rossetti - Eva Room
, Manchester, UK
Films shown: Gold
Move 4: Finale
The Finale wraps up three days of dance films with the most international programme:
Website: www.commonwealthfilm.com
Rue Laeken Brussels
Venue: with PTTL and BNA
APaNGO
A series of 2 x 2 day workshops run for PTTL on street interview techniques and collective editing processes. The aim of the workshop was to produce a DVD to accompany a book published by PTTL for BNA.
Riverside walk and Presentations
Website: www.spectacle.co.uk/...
Organised by Clays Lane Residents
Venue: Clays Lane Community Centre
, London, United Kingdom
Films shown: Olympic Stories. Clays Lane
People, Planning and Participation Conference
Venue: Glaziers Hall, London
Town and Country Planning Association conference. Mark Saunders presented a range of uses of participatory media in the context of People, Planning and Participation.
Organised by Sadler's Wells
Venue: Lilian Baylis Theatre
, London, England
Films shown: Gold
you can see clips at:
http://www.sadlers-wells.com/lilian_baylis/2005_2006/screen.asp#goldvid
Website: www.sadlers-wells.com/...
Organised by Jacques Franck Cultural Centre
Venue: Jacques Franck Cultural Centre
, Brussels, Belgium
Films shown: Cite Admin
Panel discussion on politically engaged video. Mark Saunders represented the PTTL/Spectacle workshop.
Two day community video workshops
Venue: Geuzenveld-Slotermeer , Amsterdam, Netherland
PTTL /Spectacle open workshop
Venue: PTTL 23 Rue du méridien 1210 St-Josse
APaNGO
PTTL / Spectacle Open Workshop on Cité Administrative / RijksAdministratiefCentrum
An opportunity for interview training, camera training,investigative journalism techniques and...eating delightful cake(s?).
Organised by Pallm Springs International Film Festival
Venue: Camelot
, Palm Springs, US
Films shown: Gold
Shown as short with Belgium/French film Blush by Wim Vandekeybus
Website: www.psfilmfest.org
Then and Now: The Politics of participation and urban change
Venue: B+B for Art and Architecture Journal
Winter 05/06
How "art has offered an active space for communities living in areas of redevelopment to communicate their demands and concerns about proposed changes....puts a foot in the door and ask who is calling the shots and draw attention to local interests." B+B
Website: www.artandarchitecturejournal.com
Mark Saunders Visiting lecturer.
Venue: london college of communications
School of Media
Course: BA 3rd Year
Organised by Dance4Film
Venue: Channel 4
Films shown: Gold first UK broadcast
Organised by Film Festival van Antwerpen
Venue: Het Filmhuis, Klappei #2
, 2060 Antwerpen, Belgium
Films shown: Vlug Stuk by Mark Saunders, Axel Claes, Karin Vyncke (BE) A PTTL/Spectacle workshop collaboration.
A man, two women, one room. On stage: in a room, an antichamber, a reflection of the outside world. 3 while searching in their own and others bodies discover open wounds asking for healing. 3 vibrations, dancing and acting in an environment of screens.
Website: www.danscamdanse.be/...
collaborative mapping, active archive (sharing and exchange), living memory, pub
Venue: Beurschouwburg Brussels
Brussels Belfast London
Course: Strategies of participation
Towards a public digital infrastructure for knowledge representation in urban practice
Organised by Hackney Independent
Venue: Sussex Arms
, London
Films shown: All That Glitters, Clays Lane Olympic Update and Kilner House on the 1981 Squat against the sales.
Website: www.hackneyindependent.org/...
Organised by Chapel Youth Club
Venue: Baptist Chapel, Larkhall Park, Kennington
, London, England
Films shown: Class X webclips
Attended by about 20+ local young people. Many of the audience knew the people in the films. They sat and watched all 25 clips.
Website: www.channel4.com/...
Organised by Channel 4
Venue: www.channel4.com
Films shown: 31 web clips.
Spectacle workshop produced Web clips based on interviews with and shot by young people (11-15 yrs) on the issue of education as part of the unteachables support and campaign page.
Website: www.channel4.com/...
Talk in the ICA bar
Venue: ICA
Cultural Revelation
Londoners share views, memories, dreams & reflections of life in this diverse, extraordinary, capital.
Beryl Bainbridge,Bernard Kops,Al Alvarez,John the Cabbie,Matthew Stone,Mark Saunders,Jude Rogers,Clifford Slapper,Zandra Rhodes,Lennie Lee.
Website: blog.urbanomic.com/...
Organised by Berwick-upon-Tweed Film & Media Arts Festival
Venue: Berwick-upon-Tweed
, Berwick-upon-Tweed, England
Films shown: Gold
Website: www.berwickfilm-artsfest.com
Organised by Film Akademie Baden-Wuerttemberg
Venue: Ludwigsburg
, Germany
Films shown: Gold
Website: www.kurzfilmiennale.de
Organised by Spectacle
Venue: ICA
, London, England
Films shown: Nolympics (anon), All That Glitters (Noemi Rodriguez) and The Bid (Agitate films).
Part of London in 6 Easy Steps
Olympic Mega-Projects.
Screenings and discussions on the 2012 Olympics as mega, exclusionary urban regeneration with community activists, filmmakers and veterans of other bids.
Website: www.welcomebb.org.uk/...
Organised by Spectacle
Venue: ICA
, London, England
Films shown: Videos by and about residents involved in urban regeneration with examples from the Silwood and Aylesbury Estates (South East London), Marsh Farm Estate (Luton) and St Joost (Brussels).
Screening and discussion. Part of Real Estate, London in 6 Easy Steps
Website: www.welcomebb.org.uk/...
London in Six Easy Steps
Venue: Institute of Contemporary Art, London
curated by B+B
Course: Gallery
Focus on interventions, events and critical responses to regeneration and the increasing privatisation of public space in London.
Silwood Video Group dvds, vol 1, 2 and 3 were available on demand during the week long exhibition.
Organised by PTTL
Venue: Ateliers Mommen, St Joost
, Brussels, Belgium
Films shown: Cite Administrative ( 21 mins edit 21.08.2005)
Depuis un an, une trentaine de personnes documentent les evenements dans et autour la Cité Administrative à Bruxelles.
Website: www.ateliersmommen.collectifs.net
Organised by Mommen Ateliers
Venue: Mommen Ateliers
, Brussels, Belgium
Films shown: Cite Adminastrative
12-16 year olds on education.
Venue: Silwood, Stockwell, Greenwich
Website: www.channel4.com/...
Contested/ing Rights. Planning Rights and the Right to the City
Venue: Rome / Collevecchio
15th INURA Conference
Website: www.inura.org/...
Organised by Espace-Videograph
Venue: ?
, Montreal, Canada
Films shown: Gold
Organised by Vidéographe, en collaboration avec le centre Clark
Venue: Bain Saint-Michel
, Montreal, Canada
Films shown: Gold
Marsh Farm Video Group Master Planning Day 2 camera shoot
Venue: Marsh Farm Luton
MFCDDT
Afer a series of practical video workshops the Marsh Farm Video Group documented the Master Planning Day.
Regen: From the conventional to the inspirational
Venue: Marsh Farm Outreach
Course: 3 Camera Workshop for Silwood Video Group
National launch of Organisation Workshop.
Filmed by Spectacle and Silwood Video Group (see archive). Three Camera shoot.
Organised by Constellation Change Film Festival
Venue: Curzon Cinema Soho
, London, UK
Films shown: Gold
Website: www.constellation-change.co.uk
Organised by Tampere International Film Festival
Venue: ?
, Tampere, Finland
Films shown: Gold
Website: www.tamperefilmfestival.fi
Organised by Nova
Venue: Nova Cinema
, Brussels, Belgium
Films shown: 2024
Film produced by PTTL video workshop using the Active Archive of PTTL and Spectacle.
Seminar and Workshop at the World Social Forum WSF
Venue: Porto Alegre, Brasil
Website: www.inura.org/...
Organised by National Osteoporosis Society
Venue: Harrogate International Centre
, Harrogate
Films shown: Bone Orchestra
The National Osteoporosis Society Conference is now established as the leading UK conference for scientists and clinicians interested in this bone disease.
Organised by Doc House
Venue: Riverside Studios
, London, England
Films shown: Extract Truth Lies in Rostock
Documentary Futures: The Digital Age - from the 1990s to the present: Digital media, Cinema and the Internet, the future of documentary.
Presentation by Mark Saunders
Website: www.dochouse.org/...
Organised by The Place
Venue: The Place theatre , Robin Howard Dance Theatre
, London, UK
Films shown: Gold
Website: www.theplace.org.uk
Organised by L’Alternativa Barcelona
Venue: ?
, Barcelona, Spain
Films shown: Gold
Website: alternativa.cccb.org
Organised by Leeds International Film Festival
Venue: Ster Century Cinema
, Leeds, England
Films shown: Gold
UK Nov 2004
Website: www.leedsfilm.com
Organised by KINODANCE International Film Festival
Venue: ?
, St. Petersburg, Russia
Films shown: Gold
Website: www.kinodance.com/...
Organised by Moving Pictures Festival
Venue: NFB Cinema
, Montreal, Canada
Films shown: GOLD
Website: www.movingpicturesfestival.com
Organised by Ultima Festival
Venue: ?
, Oslo, Norway
Films shown: Gold
Website: www.ultima.no
Documentary
Venue: University of the Arts
Diploma in Foundation Studies
Course: Media Studies
Organised by BrnoShort Film Festival
Venue: soutûÏní blok
, brno, Czech Republic
Films shown: Gold
Honourable Mention
Website: www.b16.cz
For INURA london
Venue: The Bartlett UCL
Urban Forum
The world charter of city rights claims that 'The city is a culturally rich and diversified space that belongs to all the inhabitants'. ¯Neo-liberal policies of privatisation however mean that public realm of the city is forever decreasing.
Website: www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/...
Organised by New Orleans Film Festival
Venue: Contemporary Arts Center
, New Orleans, USA
Films shown: Gold
USA Oct 2004
Website: www.neworleansfilmfest.com
Organised by Festival du Nouveau Cinema
Venue: Ex-Centris, Cinéma du Parc
, Montreal, Canada
Films shown: Gold
Website: www.nouveaucinema.ca/...
Organised by Ethnic Minorioty enterprise Project
Venue: Brick Lane London
, London, England
Films shown: Gold
Website: www.bricklanefestival.com
Organised by Chicago International Film Festival
Venue: Carnegie Theate
, Chicago, USA
Films shown: Gold
Website: www.chicagofilmfestival.org
Mark Saunders
Venue: University of the Arts, London
School of Media
Course: Foundation Documentary
Organised by MediaArt Friesland
Venue: Theatre Romein
, Leeuwarden, Holland
Films shown: Gold
Website: www.mediaartfriesland.n
Olympic Graffiti
Venue: Magazine of the Planners Network
Fall 2004 no 161
Olympic Graffiti- photos and text on athens anti-olympic graffiti. Special Olympic issue with articles on hopeful bidders, New York, Leipzig and misery for Athen's Roma communities.
Website: www.plannersnetwork.org/...
Organised by Video Dance
Venue: ?
, Athens and Thessaloniki, Greece
Films shown: Gold
Website: www.filmfestival.gr
5 day open workshop
Venue: Cité Administrative RijksAdminCentrum
PleinOpen Air
Course: Spectacle/PTTL
Open workshop run during PleinOpen Air 04 at Cite Administrative. 19 attendees spoke 17 languages between them. The film Cite Admin (see catalogue) grew out of this workshop.
Website: www.nova-cinema.org/...
Organised by Spectacle and PTTL Nova and City Mined
Venue: Cite Administrative
, Brussels, Belgium
Films shown: Various Silwood, Marsh Farm and St Joost videos
Spectacle, PTTL, Marsh Farm Video (Luton) et Silwood Video (London) présentent un programme de vidéos et une discussion autour de l’utilisation de la vidéo par des habitants dans le cadre de programmes de "participation" et de "revitalisation urbaine".
Website: www.pleinopenair.org/...
Radio Panic
As part of PleinOpenAir Radio Panic did a live radio studio discussion with Spectacle and the Silwood and Marsh Farm video workshop groups.
Website: www.radiopanik.org/...
Workshop about organising participatory media
Venue: Spectacle, PTTL and City Mined
Cité Administrative RijksAdminCentrum
Organised by ReelDance Festival
Venue: Sydney Opera House
, Sydney, Australia
Films shown: GOLD
also
The Australian Choreographic Centre, Canberra
Brisbane Powerhouse, Brisbane
Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne
Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth
Auckland Dance Festival, New Zealand
Newcastle City Hall,
Website: www.oneextra.org.au/...
Organised by The Big Chill
Venue: Eastnor Castle Festival and london Event
, London and Eastnor, UK
Films shown: GOLD
Website: www.bigchill.net
Organised by Mecal Experimental Film Festival
Venue: CCCB Barcelona
, Barcelona, Spain
Films shown: Gold
Website: www.mecalbcn.org/...
Organised by Portobello Film Festival
Venue: Electric Cinema
, London, England
Films shown: GOLD
Most Popular Overall Film Award
Website: www.portobellofilmfestival.com
Organised by Edinburgh Film Festival
Venue: Edinburgh Film House
, edinburgh, Scotland
Films shown: Gold
Website: www.edfilmfest.org.uk
Organised by Iceland Film Dance Festival
Venue: ?
, Reckjavick, Iceland
Films shown: Gold
Organised by British Gymnastics Association
Venue: Spectrum sports Centre
, Guildford, UK
Films shown: Gold
Organised by ReelVenus Film Festival
Venue: Symphony Space
, New York City, USA
Films shown: GOLD
Website: www.reelvenus.com
ESF URBAN SCIENCE FORWARD LOOK WORKSHOP in LEIPZIG
Venue: European Science Foundation
Mark Saunders's films provoked a discussion about third world type informal spaces in European cities, the impacts of inter-urban competition programs, and who is really taking the risk.
Website: www.esf.org/...
CREATIVE CITY
Venue: Amsterdam / Egmond
14th INURA Conference
Website: www.inura.org/...
Organised by B+B
Venue: Battersea park Pump House
, London, England
Films shown: Truth Lies in Rostock
Website: www.welcomebb.org.uk/...
Organised by INURA Zurich
Venue: Stadtlabor in Bogen 13
, Zurich, Switzerland
Films shown: Exodus Extended Mix ( German version)and various visuals projected for backdrop of event.
May 11, 2004: Simultanous Book Launch "the contested metropolis" in Berlin, Florence and Zurich
Organised by INURA Toronto and PlanningAction
Venue: Blue Moon Pub, 725 Queen Street East
, Toronto, Canada
Films shown: La Participation. Exodus
THE CONTESTED METROPOLIS
- SIX CITIES AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 21ST CENTURY
also screened.
Los Angeles: "Suckerfish: Privatizers of Welfare" by Ernest Savage
Website: www.inura.org/...
Organised by Marion Von Osten
Venue: KUNSTVEREIN MÜNCHEN
, MÜNCHEN, Germany
Films shown: La Participation
Website: www.grazerkunstverein.org/...
Organised by Cinematheque Quebecoise
Venue: Cinematheque Quebec salle Fernand-Sequin
, Montreal, Canada
Films shown: Truth Lies in Rostock
Website: www.cinematheque.qc.ca/...
Organised by Arts Council England
Venue: Intitute of Contemporary Arts
, London, 42
Films shown: GOLD
Website: www.artscouncil.org.uk
Organised by PTTL
Venue: Recyclart
, Brussels, Belgium
Films shown: CHArleroi workshop edit
One day course
Venue: Blazing the Trail Birbeck College
Multi-skilling for Broadcasting TV
Course: Learning Skills Council NVQ level 3
Centre for Urban and Community Research
Venue: Goldsmiths, University of London
Mark Saunders presented a critique of participation in urban regeneration.
Website: www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/...
Organised by PTTL
Venue: doplokaal van Sint-Joost
, Brussels, Belgium
Films shown: Call me Josse
Organised by BRAL
Venue: Cinema Nova
, Brussels, Belgium
Films shown: Globalisation, Citizenship and the European Project.
Ricardo Petrella
Organised by The Black Welsh Film Festival
Venue: Chapter Arts
, Cardiff, Wales
Films shown: Hear Our Voices
A highly disturbing and compelling history of 6 Black people's experiences in the British mental health system, as told in their own words. An important contribution to the understanding of institutional racism.
Website: www.geocities.com/...
Organised by Koninklijke Muntschouwburg?
Venue: Koninklijke Muntschouwburg
, Brussels, Belgium
Films shown: Presentation and screening of Charleroi workshop edit
Organised by British Film Institute
Venue: National Film Theatre
, London, England
Films shown: Despite the Poll Tax (aka Despite TV 15) Despite TV 25mins
Organised by BFI
Venue: National Film Theatre
, London, England
Films shown: Despite the Poll Tax
Organised by LOOP/Spectacle
Venue: Mornigton Centre
, London, England
Films shown: Be happy, Be Healthy, Join Loop
Website: www.newcrossgatendc.org.uk/...
PTTL video group 4 camera shoot of dance performance
Venue: Theatre de le Balsamine
24-28 June Spectacle workshop for PTTL video group on multi-camera shoots of live events (4 cameras), recording Vlug Stuk, a live dance performance by Karin Vynke.
DIVIDED CITY
Venue: Berlin / Trebnitz
13th INURA Conference
Website: www.inura.org/...
Organised by Equal WorkingBroadband GB
Venue: London House
, Brussels, Belgium
Films shown: Cracklife
IMPACTING ON POLICY. A wide range of partners came together from across Europe to develop new approaches to working with socially excluded groups and developing policies and practices relating to equality and diversity.
Organised by VOX Polymorfilms
Venue: City Mined
, Brussels, Belgium
Films shown: Call Me Josse and other videos edited at PTTL
Activisme de quartier et video-poesie: Visite du roi, course de caisse a savon, vie de quartier, ...
Urban Forum at Marsh Farm Luton
Venue: Urban Forum
Spectacle filmed most of the Urban Forum 2003
Conference organised by City Mined
Venue: Museum De Beau Art
City Mine(d), Bureau de Micro-Urbanism and School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford - COSMOPOLIS, City, Culture & Society, Vrije Universiteit Brussel - Centre de Recherche Urbaine, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Website: www.inura-berlin.de/...
Organised by Graduate Student Association
Venue: Concordia University
, Montreal, Canada
Films shown: Exodus extended mix (french subtitles)
Website: gsa.concordia.ca/...
Mark Saunders
Venue: Concordia
Fine Art
Screening of Truth lies in Rostock and seminar on independent processes of production.
Mark Saunders Visiting lecturer.
Venue: London College of Printing
Media
Organised by Festival Filmer à tout prix 10ème édition
Venue: Botanique Salle de la Rotonde
, Brussels, Belgium
Films shown: "Amatuer video" compilation
Presentation based on "Noses Pressed against the Glass" on social exclusion from TV.
Website: www.cfwb.be/...
Organised by Indymedia Liege Journée Antifasciste
Venue: Au Carlo Levi 48, rue Saint Léonard
, Liege, Belgium
Films shown: La vérité ment à Rostock
Au Carlo Levi 48, rue Saint Léonard à 4000 Liege
Dans le cadre des commémoration de la nuit de Cristal
Website: users.skynet.be/...
Organised by Argos
Venue: Argos
, Brussels, Belgium
Films shown: Participation
Website: archive.argosarts.org/...
Organised by FSK Radio Hamburg
Venue: Freies Sender Kombinat
, Hamburg, Germany
Films shown: Truth Lies in Rostock sound
Wir wärmen uns auf für den kommenden Feiertag! Und geleiten euch mit gruseligen Fakten und furchterregender Musik zum Thema in unseren Tag der Deutschen gemEINHEIT.
Website: www.fsk-hh.org/...
Organised by Golden Pudel Club
Venue: Golden Pudel Club
, Hamburg, Germany
Films shown: Truth Lies in Rostock
Am 28.8. gab es aus Anlaß des 10. Jahrestages der Pogrome in Rostock-Lichtenhagen im
Pudel-Club den Film "Die Wahrheit liegt bzw lügt in Rostock" zu sehen.
Website: www.pudel.com/...
Organised by Bunt Statt braun
Venue: Hochschule für Musik und Theater
, Rostock, Germany
Films shown: Truth Lies in Rostock
in Anwesenheit des Filmautors Mark Saunders und mit anschließender Diskussionsrunde in der Hochschule für Musik und Theater (Kammermusiksaal)
Organised by Werkleitz Biennale
Venue: Tornitz/Werkleitz, Saxony-Anhalt
, Tornitz/Werkleitz, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
Films shown: The Truth Lies in Rostock
Website: www.werkleitz.de/...
Austrian Cultural Forum
Residency, part of the visual arts programme
Dezentrale Medien, represented by Eva Dertschei, Petja Dimitrova, Carlos Toledo and Borjana Ventzislavova visit Spectacle as part of researching models of practice and conditions under which similar organisations and institions are working in the UK.
Website: www.austria.org.uk/...
SOLIDARICITÉ
Venue: Caen / Paris / Clinchamps sur Orne
12th INURA Conference
Website: www.inura.org/...
Die Wahrheit luegt in Rostock
Venue: Kanak Attack
Panel discussion on 10 years after Rostock with Mark Saunders and Ole Weidmann.
Die Wahrheit lügt in Rostock
Mark Saunders (Filmemacher) Ols Weidmann (Prozeßbeobachter)
filmed. see archive
Website: www.kanak-attak.de/...
Organised by Kanak Attack
Venue: Volksbuhne
, Berlin, Germany
Films shown: Truth Lies in Rostock
Website: www.kanak-attak.de/...
Mark Saunders lecture on Utopias
Venue: Champlaine College Montreal
Mark Saunders Visiting lecturer.
Venue: Wayne State University, Detroit
Department of Communications
Course: Media
Organised by Concordia humanities doctoral students.
Venue: Concordia University
, Montreal, Canada
Films shown: A romp through 20 years of independent media.Using clips from Despite TV and Spectacle.
“Utopian is a derogatory term for people who imagine there might be any other way to organize society,” Announced media activist Mark Saunders, the keynote speaker at the R/évolution conference.
Website: ctr.concordia.ca/...
Organised by 2nd Tyneside Radical Film Fetival
Venue: The Side Cinema
, Newcastle, England
Films shown: Exodus: Movement of Jah People and Christiana-You have my heart (Nils Vest)
Website: www.amber-online.com/...
Organised by Nova Cinema
Venue: Nova Cinema
, Brussels, Belgium
Visit http://www.pttl.be/en/07/01.html for full text of debate
Website: www.cmn.ie/...
Organised by BruXXel-Gare
Venue: Place du Luxembourg, Gare Leopold Zone Libre
, 1050 Bruxelles, Belgium
Films shown: Participation, Call me Josse and Video installation by Mark Saunders
La caméra est partie prenante de ce processus. Elle en constitue l'archive mais devient aussi un outil d'élaboration d'une parole collective.
Website: stream.paranode.com/...
Organised by Syndicat Potentiel
Venue: Syndicat Potentiel
, Strasbourg, France
Films shown: Truth Lies in Rostock + Call me Josse
14 h Projection de Appelez-moi Josse, 2001 par Plus tôt te laat et Mark Saunders vidéo et démocratie participative
20 h Projection du film La vérité ment à Rostock de Mark Saunders
(UK), 78' - 1993 en sa présence suivie d'une discussion
Website: utangente.free.fr/...
Organised by Syndicat Potentiel
Venue: Universite Tangent
, Strasbourg, France
Films shown: Call me Josse and Truth Lies in Rostock
Suiver d'une discussion
Website: www.universite-tangente.fr.st
Organised by Groundwork
Venue: National Maritime Museum
, Greenwich, England
Films shown: Silwood Work in Progress
Premiere of first edit of workshop work filmed during the year on the Silwood Estate.
Organised by La Fédération des CEC
Venue: Centre Culturel J.Franck
, Brussels, Belgium
Films shown: Call me Josse
C'est formateur, c'est créatif. La liberté de ton est aux antipodes de tout didactisme. L'artiste est plus au dessus, il est " avec ". Il est dedans. Il peut être lui-même demandeur d'emploi et créateur. C'est ensemble qu'ils apprennent en faisant.
Website: www.fpcec.be/...
Organised by Charles Picque, Minister for Economic Affairs respns for Policy of Major Cities
Venue: Comic Museum
, Brussels, Belgium
Films shown: La Participation screened in "Innovative Methodologies" section.
Website: www.politiqueurbaine.be
Organised by Omsk
Venue: Toynbee Hall
, London, England
Films shown: Blindfold and Glitz ( installation)
RIGHTS AND FIGHTS
Venue: Florence / La Chiara di Prumiano, Italy
11th INURA conference 2001
Website: www.inura.org/...
Organised by ambient tv
Venue: Trams
, Riga, Latvia
Films shown: Exodus from Babylon & Despite TV selection
Organised by Nova & City Mined
Venue: Martini Tower
, Brussels, Belgium
Films shown: Call me Josse
Double bill with Blade Runner
Website: www.nova-cinema.com/...
Organised by Une caméra vidéo afin de filmer le contrat de quartier a été mise à la dispositi
Venue: La Sagese
, Brussels, Belgium
Films shown: Call me Josse
see Bx027
Une caméra vidéo a été mise à la disposition de tout un chacun.Un véritable témoignage spontané de la vie du quartier vue par les habitants.Contrairement aux autres initiatives celle-ci a remporté un vif succès auprès des jeunes du quartier.
Website: //membres.lycos.fr/houwaertbossuet/corps2.htm#presentation
Organised by Agence Alter
Venue: Halles Saint-Géry
, Brussels, Belgium
Films shown: Eoxodus extended mix french subtitles
Website: www.alter.be/...
Organised by Agence Alter
Venue: Halles Saint-Géry
, Brussels, Belgium
Films shown: Call me Josse. Appelez-moi josse. Noem Mij Josse
Website: www.alter.be/...
Workshop for community and voluntary sector on media
Venue: Community Development Foundation
Course: Community Journalism
One day workshop in the New Forest.
Website: www.cdf.org.uk/...
Organised by école potentielle
Venue: Bureau de pointage de Saint-Josse
, Brussels, Belgium
Films shown: Appelez-moi Josse
Comme partout en Europe, il y a des essais de démocratie participative qui porte sur l'aménagement urbain et la prise en charge collective de la ville.Cette vidéo est une contribution pour qu'une telle participation se réalise dans un quartier de Bruxelle
Website: www.nettime.org/...
Video Workshops
Venue: Click Centre, Walthamstow
Website: www.o-regen.co.uk/...
Workshop with trainees at PTL
Venue: PTL
Workshop with trainees at PTL, a work experience centre in St Josse.
Organised by Eurovision 2000
Venue: Kunsthalle Exnergasse Wien WUK
, Vienna, Austria
Films shown: Truth Lies in Rostock
Facing increase in right-wing politics in & outside EU the congress discussed critical approaches; forms of political activism to cultural and media strategies.
Website: www.eurovision2000.net/...
Curated by Eurovision 2000
Venue: Kunsthalle Exnergasse Wien WUK , Vienna, Austria
Video viewing in gallery of Truth Lies in Rostock, Exodus Extended Mix and other Spectacle vidoes.
Organised by Eurovision 2000
Venue: Centrum Brussel 2000, Schildnaapstraat 50
, Brussels, Belgium
Films shown: Exodus webcast
Zero Tolerance and Guiliani politics, a secret performance, streamed at 15hu00 in centre Bruxelles 2000, Centrum